MicroObjects

MicroObjects (originally µObjects) is my summarization of how to write maintainable Object Oriented code that is highly resistant to code rot.
MicroObjects help your code be more maintainable through many best practices being inescapable. A couple of these are that objects become inherently thread safe and emergent design and evolutionary architecture is unavoidable.

Through the information presented; MicroObjects' benefits will be discussed and examples of refactoring into MicroObjects will be demonstrated.

Driving principle

Have a representation for every concept that exist in the code.

Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4

The Technical Practices of MicroObjects

No Getters (or Setters)
Be immutable
Interface for Behavior Contracts
Abstract 3rd Party Code
No Public Statics
If Only as a Guard Clause
Switch and Else are always evil
No Nulls
No new inline
Extract Cohesion
Composition over Inheritance
No primitives
No enums
No logic in constructors

Why?

Maintainability
Null Safety
Thread Safety
High Cohesion
Low Coupling
Fully Testable
Composition over Inheritance
Common Patterns

CLEAN Code

Examples

I'm always trying to improve how I write code. As such, exactly how my implementation of MicroObjects goes changes over time. Check the dates on the last commit of these; the further back they are, the more likely I do stuff a little different.

Driving principle

Have a representation for every concept that exist in the code.

The Technical Practices of MicroObjects

Why?

CLEAN Code

Examples

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